Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERETobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
More Moliere Quotes
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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There is no protection against slander.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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